you can't categorize me, I guess?

Another topic I thought of when I was talking to Toshi (we've been talking a lot these days because he's doing a streaming event, so he's streaming a lot).

But it's also a topic I've talked about with various people in Japan.

The "blood types = personality" thing that Japan loves so much.

So... YOUたち何型？

I am apparently the ultimate outlier when it comes to the categorizations in Japan. Let's have a look:

General personality of people who have type A blood

-- Consider things carefully -- Can understand other people’s feelings easily -- Kind -- Good at hospitality -- Don’t express themselves in order to avoid possible quarrel -- Do things carefully and steadily, and don’t take the next step if they are not satisfied -- Honor student types who don’t go off the rail -- Fastidious -- Big on cleanliness -- Can be calm even when accidents happen -- Strong on taking responsibility -- Hard workers -- Safe drivers

General personality of people who have type B blood

-- Like to go their own way -- Do what they want without considering other people’s feelings, rules and customs -- Happy-go-lucky and masters of breaking rules -- Optimistic -- Friendly and open their heart to anybody -- Not pretentious -- Afraid of being alone -- Get lonely easily -- Quick to adapt -- Flexible thinkers -- Pragmatists -- Don’t chase a dream much -- Like to play -- Love festivals and parties -- Have been in love many times -- Don’t get heart-broken over lost love

General personality of people who have type AB blood

-- Chase ideals and dreams -- Don’t have secular needs such as greed and a desire to succeed -- Have strong spirituality -- Calm and rational -- Sensitive and easily hurt -- Have a complicated personality -- Private life is important -- Don’t like interference from other people -- Have various hobbies -- Vigorous in pursuit of knowledge in wide range of fields -- Are bookworms -- Have unique ideas and are creative -- Have fairy tale-like hobbies -- Calm and frank about love relationship

General personality of people who have type O blood

-- Realistic -- Good at developing economic concepts -- Vigorous at earning a living -- Strong in face of adversity -- Romanticists -- Dream of getting rich quick, but actually take a steady approach -- Ambitious -- Go straight toward their goal -- Have leadership ability and often take care of younger people and people below them -- Very cautious -- Don’t care about small things, taking a wider perspective instead -- Devoted, but with a strong desire to monopolize

Source: Japan Today

Toshi, along with ALL other Japanese people I talk to and who get to know me, were dead set on me being A. And when I tell them they're wrong, they go on guessing and my real blood type is last 95% of the time. Nobody believes that I'm B. lol Oh and as a fun fact, O is usually their second guess.

There isn't even the slightest bit of A in me anywhere. My parents are B and O respectively.

Most people just brush it off as "these things don't apply to foreign people, huh?", which I find very amusing because even among Japanese people you have outliers.

What were your experiences with this obsession with blood types?